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Canon
02:25
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Martyr de, you're all dinner and no show
So I walk through your town buttoned up to my throat
Singing lines that I wrote and forgot late last night
To the tune of "Pictures of You" and "Strawberry Wine"
Not clean enough for bed yet, you keep me like a curse
I don't want any new friends, I want old friends that I know how to hurt
Ghost of yesterday
Ghost of everything
Please call me back
Finish it off, I know you can taste it
You know I can take it
Maybe you should take one, too
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2. |
Tare
03:19
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I want to know where you are tonight
Where you are right now
If you don't pick up your phone I'm telling you
This will be the last time
When were you going to tell me?
Always after I find out
Why don't you act like you know me?
Like you know what it's about
Run away from home
Get your pack and your gear
Because this will be the last time
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3. |
Cant
04:13
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We've run in circles, we're run aground
In the face of all our failure we do not make a sound
We might be losing, but we're self righteous as hell
We may be going nowhere and that may be just as well
Crying out now
You're tempting fate
I've been wanting and wasting for nothing
Hoping you could change my ways
But you're lost in the ocean
You're lost at sea and I'm begging, praying Jesus
Saying "Please, baby, please"
Thought that you lost me
Well you almost did
But I've got nowhere else to go
I've been waiting since we were kids
Getting older, getting angry, getting harder to understand
Feels like no one is ever listening
They don't even pretend
The well is empty and the river is dry
It's hard to think of 2008
It makes me want to die and I sing
Older brother, where have you been?
I've been waiting for something
I've been waiting for anything
Living in your shadow sure beats living by myself
and I'll try not to get so lonely
If you'll try and get some help
Wasted without worry
We drank our way up to the top shelf
Time it builds up fury, with every story I retell
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4. |
Hedge
03:00
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You say you don't know yourself
I lie, I tell you the same
Maybe we can be the people that we thought we've been
We steer for port with the ship enflamed
You're up until 6am
You finished the box of wine
Thinking maybe you can try to say it different this time
Tell me again how it can be so good
You watch my back, I'll get the door
You say you're unqualified
The vessel too far from shore
Uncertain you can even see the beach anymore
You float away alone
We should have died you could have swore
You never expected we could row
But here I am, here you are and here we go
You say you could've saved yourself
Maybe, I don't know
Where did you find to hide when everything sank
Bound by your mythos and i'm trying to explain
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5. |
Crates
03:54
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Working the night shift
Praying for rain
Talking to yourself at dawn
Plotting eminent domain
Maybe you can bring this one home
Maybe your room is clean
Maybe she's happy to meet you
Maybe she doesn't see
All the broken pieces
All the seaweed covered beaches
Why don't you try to find a reason
Why don't you give me just one reason to stay
Where will you go?
Where will you go now?
When you find out
Now that you've found out
How much harder this life can be
All regret, no sympathy
Where did you go?
How you going to pout now?
Another round, another round until you fall down
Did you kill your hobbies with the where, the why, the how?
Not so profound, not so
Somehow you didn't know
Somehow you couldn't tell
That this was all just a fucking joke
and that was probably just as well
Why work so hard just to drown in debt?
Why sing so loud when no one hears a word you said?
Not a goddamn word you said
No way and no how
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6. |
Gradients
02:31
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Nothing left to lose
Nothing left to say
Nothing left to win
Nothing left to gain
Love has always been a dirty game to play
Do you ever want to try to break away?
From your losing streak
From the whole team
Will yourself into oblivion
Will yourself into my minivan
Will yourself into my bunk bed
Wrap it up
Cut the ends
Time to finish it
Get your friends
Get your truck and gather all your shit
Put it in a place where it's hard to find
Put it in a place that I won't recognize
Will yourself into oblivion
Will yourself into my minivan
Will yourself into my bunk bed
Want to know what you know and what you think about
Want to know where you been, what you can't live without
Want to see the things that you can't unsee
Want to know what you think that you mean
You think you mean
You mean to me
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7. |
Debts
03:54
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Burn down the church, cut the telephone wire
Tear down the steeple, bury the choir
You worship old poems, you're rotten on the vine
Feeling self important, feeling so inspired
Look at all the people trying to understand
How old river Moses met the steel driving man
He worked for his pension and saved for old age
He burned up his bridges, he gave it all away
Did he part the sea
or did he lay it down and go to sleep?
Did he fall to his knees
or did he pack his shit and leave?
Wish it hadn't been so simple this time
Singing "Hallelujah" going out of our mind
Hands up, praying for redemption on a dime
Begging for a mercy rule into overtime
We deserve to melt
Fold in on ourself
We deserve to go to hell
To dissolve, evaporate and swell
In love with nothing, least of all yourself
Restless, impatient, waiting on my shelf
Solving your riddles and wasting your time
Eating up your riches and drinking your wine
When it gets too steep
You should probably try to join the winning team
When you go to sleep dream of anything but me
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8. |
Pacts
03:44
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Arrangement invalid
Our contract is void
The convention is over
The deal's been destroyed
and I'm still where I was left
and I might always be
In providence or province
The truth's never easy
Complete the transaction
Hope they understand
Check your reflection
Submit your demands
Negotiate a bargain before the protocol is set
You're bonded not in concord but instant regret
Divert attention from your brain dead ploys
Speak up for your friendships or watch them destroyed
Pack your bags and zip them tight
Look over your shoulder
Turn out the light
Pacts invalid
Tiny puddles on the floor
Awaiting the settlement
Neglecting your chores
The arrangement's negated
All contracts destroyed
The convention's not over but the deal's been deployed
and I'm still where you left me
and I might always be
In province or providence you can't be so choosy
So, repeal the transaction
Hope they understand
Check your reflection
Submit your demands
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9. |
Caste
03:14
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Scavenge everything
Try to pull the wool from your eyes
The treasures night can bring
The dust mites, the warmth of your thighs
You worship anything
Not a tower you wouldn't climb
What you going to find up there?
What will you find?
Can I ride on your coattail?
Can I follow you home?
Can I sleep on your altar?
Can I learn your song?
I want to know what your name is
and how long I've got to go
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